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1701-e 16-11-2022 14:02

Latest black Friday offer
 
I've been offered the full volt package.... With HD sky sports and movies and Netflix with an unlimited SIM for £89 per month for 18 month minimum... Including second box. Seems too good to be true.

Itshim 16-11-2022 17:43

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Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 36140126)
I've been offered the full volt package.... With HD sky sports and movies and Netflix with an unlimited SIM for £89 per month for 18 month minimum... Including second box. Seems too good to be true.

Check that the O2 part isn't CPI + 3.9% after 12 months also Netflix control there prices , can't see virgin subsiding it :shocked: if cast iron looks very good to me

bbxxl 16-11-2022 22:22

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I’ve just changed to that and it’s £111/ month.
Your offer does seem very good. I wonder if there is a catch or if you have just got a very good deal.

1701-e 16-11-2022 22:59

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It was a directed emai. I checked the price and for new customers its £79 so not too shabby especially with gig1 etc

Itshim 17-11-2022 17:48

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Originally Posted by Itshim (Post 36140153)
Check that the O2 part isn't CPI + 3.9% after 12 months also Netflix control there prices , can't see virgin subsiding it :shocked: if cast iron looks very good to me

As for as I can see O2 is CPI+ 3.9% after 12 months again as far as I can tell O2 is priced at £25 so around 10% + another 3.9% that sounds expensive .

Chrysalis 18-11-2022 02:11

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With current price rises been close to 15%, they can afford to give these deals, even after only 1 year you paying over £100.

My signing up offer was gig1 + call weekends + streaming + o2 sim for £41. So at least with my lower baseline price point the inflation wont seem so crazy ha ha, and yes I was warned on the phone it will be going up in March next year so I have the price for just a few months.

Mr K 22-11-2022 19:21

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https://news.sky.com/story/just-one-...posed-12752569

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Just one in seven deals on Black Friday offer a genuine discount, according to new research from Which?.

The consumer champion analysed 214 Black Friday deals last year at seven major home and tech retailers - Amazon, AO, Argos, Currys, John Lewis, Richer Sounds and Very - looking at their prices every day in the six months before and after the sale day (26 November 2021).

It found the majority of promotions (183 - or 86%) were cheaper or the same price in the six months before the sales. Of the deals, 209 (98%) were cheaper or the same price at other times in the year. None were cheaper on Black Friday alone.

joglynne 23-11-2022 11:55

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Originally Posted by Mr K (Post 36140615)

If you use Amazon I can highly recommend the Kappa extension. Today itis showing Amazon prices back to 1st September
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Overview....
✜ Price History charts
Detailed Price History charts for over 2.5 billion Amazon products.

✜ Price Drop & Availability Alerts
Set up a price watch directly from the product page. We track any product for you and notify you once the product dropped below your desired price. We track lightning deals as well!

✜ Compare and track international Amazon prices
Prices for all Amazon locales are listed and can easily be tracked.

✜ Daily Deals, an overview of recent price drops
Get the real deals. Keepa finds the best deals every day. Find products with the highest drop in price in your favorite product category.
I don't know if you will be able to see the Kappa chart on the following link but it is showing that todays reduction down to £10.47, is only £1 or £2 less than it was sold at during most of the time since September. So the Black Friday deal may look good but in reality you would save only a small amount not the 87% Amazon are claiming.

bbxxl 23-11-2022 12:44

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Did you mean Keepa rather than kappa? Id not heard off it before but Google gives Kappa as a clothing brand.
I’ll take a look at Keepa.
Thanks

Paul 23-11-2022 13:24

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Yep, its Keepa. :)

I just checked an item I bought for xmas, and I got it at a far lower price then its been since the summer (as far back as I coud track it on the site).

bbxxl 23-11-2022 13:39

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I saw some deeding I bought in July (not from Amazon) advertised with 30% off on Black Friday, I checked and the Black Friday price was 10% MORE than I’d paid in July.

Be careful out there folks!

joglynne 23-11-2022 14:39

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Originally Posted by bbxxl (Post 36140659)
Did you mean Keepa rather than kappa? Id not heard off it before but Google gives Kappa as a clothing brand.
I’ll take a look at Keepa.
Thanks

Sorry about that. Been tracking an offer on Kappa and my brain got a tad scrabbled. The Amazon extention is, of course, Keepa. I also use CamelCamelCamel to keep an eye open for price drops on my Amazon wish/watch lists.

Dingbat 24-11-2022 16:34

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Originally Posted by 1701-e (Post 36140126)
I've been offered the full volt package.... With HD sky sports and movies and Netflix with an unlimited SIM for £89 per month for 18 month minimum... Including second box. Seems too good to be true.

Coincidentally, I’ve had a call this afternoon offering me the same package - for £87 a month, including anytime calls on the landline.

punkrock101 24-11-2022 17:28

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I would not want to get stuck into a 18 month contract with Virgin the service is diabolical I have good deal with them myself without contract as I will be exploring cancelling with them soon,

bbxxl 24-11-2022 17:57

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I have been with Virgin for 15 years now and the service has been very, very good. I think it depends where you are in the country, but I have no complaints and on the few occasions I’ve had to call CS I have been very impressed with them as well. More than happy to sign up for another project 18 months at £86/ month plus £25 for the unlimited O2 SIM.

Paul 24-11-2022 19:01

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Originally Posted by bbxxl (Post 36140713)
I have been with Virgin for 15 years now and the service has been very, very good. I think it depends where you are in the country, but I have no complaints and on the few occasions I’ve had to call CS I have been very impressed with them as well.

I have not really had any major complaints.
Overall the BB has always been very good (23+ years now).

I've had failures, but they have been rare, and fixed within 24 hours.
I think Nottingham is a good VM area, originally built well by Diamond Cable.

CS has generally been good, there have been odd issues.
Usually with offshore support, not always, but far too often.

For the first time ever, I now have a viable alternative [via fttp] so we'll see how things go.
I'm no longer in contract with VM, but do have a discount until mid 2023, so no rush to change yet.

bbxxl 24-11-2022 21:17

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Good luck with whatever you decide to do, I still have no options for hyper speed BB. In 18 months time I probably will.
If you do take an alternative, I would be interested to hear your views once you’ve been with them for a few months, but you will probably have forgotten all about us by then.

Paul 24-11-2022 22:53

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I already have FTTP as a back-up (just 150M atm).

My biggest gripe is the IP changes far too often.
I know VM is technically dynamic, but it stays the same for years normally.
If I decide to switch, I'll have to look at the business offering, as thats a fixed IP.

Another consideration (any why I'm in no hurry atm) is that if I left VM, we would lose our two ntlworld.com emails.
Thats not a big issue for me, I dont use mine much, but my wife uses hers, so it will mean a lot of updates to her online accounts.

Mr K 24-11-2022 22:54

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No doubt VM will welcome in the New Year with another massive price rise. Its traditional after all.... A 'free' broadband speed upgrade is always a clue to what's shortly coming...
Maybe they'll call it a 'Blue Monday' offer/demand? Less popular than Black Friday but it may catch on....

Chrysalis 25-11-2022 09:38

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Originally Posted by bbxxl (Post 36140659)
Did you mean Keepa rather than kappa? Id not heard off it before but Google gives Kappa as a clothing brand.
I’ll take a look at Keepa.
Thanks

Hmm needs registration, seems a bit overkill for a price tracker, why everyone wants you to register these days ,cant people provide something for nothing anymore?

The two bits in bold conflict with each other.

Also it seems to just monitor over time rather than checking historical data? So I have to manually add products ahead of time?

"Hi there!

You are not logged in. Either log in with your username and password or use the link provided the first time you have set up a tracking request.

Keepa can monitor any Amazon product for you and send you an alert once the price drops. We will notify you via email, Web Push, Telegram or RSS. No registration required"

bbxxl 25-11-2022 10:16

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You seem to be confused. If you want them to track something for you then you need to register so they can send you details of price changes.
I’d you go to data and search for what you want you can see historical price details without registering.

joglynne 25-11-2022 11:12

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 36140758)
Hmm needs registration, seems a bit overkill for a price tracker, why everyone wants you to register these days ,cant people provide something for nothing anymore?

The two bits in bold conflict with each other.

Also it seems to just monitor over time rather than checking historical data? So I have to manually add products ahead of time?

"Hi there!

You are not logged in. Either log in with your username and password or use the link provided the first time you have set up a tracking request.

Keepa can monitor any Amazon product for you and send you an alert once the price drops. We will notify you via email, Web Push, Telegram or RSS. No registration required"

There is a free version of camelcamelcamel I just set up an email account which forwards the ccc emails to my main account. I use Keepa to see a chart of price changes on items I am thinking of buying anywhere.

Chrysalis 25-11-2022 13:41

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Originally Posted by bbxxl (Post 36140759)
You seem to be confused. If you want them to track something for you then you need to register so they can send you details of price changes.
I’d you go to data and search for what you want you can see historical price details without registering.

Indeed I am, all I did was click on the extension icon and I was greeted with that message.

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Originally Posted by joglynne (Post 36140761)
There is a free version of camelcamelcamel I just set up an email account which forwards the ccc emails to my main account. I use Keepa to see a chart of price changes on items I am thinking of buying anywhere.

Sadly still needs registration.

Chrysalis 26-11-2022 04:56

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Well confusion over, I see now its adding graphs to each product page, so is working as you guys said, I guess I shouldnt have clicked the extension icon lol, hidden it now.

bbxxl 26-11-2022 09:17

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Glad you sorted it ��

joglynne 26-11-2022 10:05

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Originally Posted by Chrysalis (Post 36140802)
Well confusion over, I see now its adding graphs to each product page, so is working as you guys said, I guess I shouldnt have clicked the extension icon lol, hidden it now.

:tu: Glad you're sorted. Don't fuss if it occaisionally goes missing, it always comes back for me within a couple of days not that it happens a lot nowadays and it could just have been my old laptop getting in on the 'annoy Jo' routine. :D

Chrysalis 27-11-2022 07:14

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The controller I purchased the current sale is the lowest ever price its been, so it was useful to find that out and there is legitimate offers.


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